We will try again today to help you to fix the small complications related to your motor vehicle. We have not too long ago seen how to unblock a fuel door, or a tank cap, today we will look into an irritating problem that can be dangerous in bad climate conditions, being a victim of wiper stuck on Land Rover Defender . And to remedy this, we will first try to understand why the wipers on your Land Rover Defender remain stuck and, secondly, how to unblock them.
Why does the wiper of my Land Rover Defender stay stuck?
So we will begin our content page with the reasons of the stuck wipers of your Land Rover Defender . To begin with we will look into the front wipers and in a second time on the rear wiper.
Why are the front wipers on my Land Rover Defender stuck in up or down position?
We will move through one after the other the different complications that can trigger the front wipers of your Land Rover Defender to get stuck :
- One of the most general motives of front wipers getting stuck on your Land Rover Defender is related to the engine unit that drives them, in reality, these engines can, with time, lose power, and ultimately need to be changed. You should find out before the total blockage of your windshield wipers that they work much slower.
- Less general, but it can still happen, is that your front wiper blades are blocked because of an object that prevents the blades from functioning, have a look up to the axis of the blades.
- If it is a lack of lubrication, you will discover that your front wipers are going slower, check fairly quickly the trigger of the trouble or else the engines will be forced and damaged.
- It is possible that the front wipers of your Land Rover Defender may not function because of a defective comodo. To check this, you need to disconnect the output wires and connect them together, if the wipers are functioning, the comodo is responsible for the problem.
- Finally, last possibility, the front wipers of your Land Rover Defender are blocked because of a power failure, so you will have to check two parts, the relay and the fuse.
Why is the rear window wiper on my Land Rover Defender stuck?
Concerning the stuck rear window wiper of your Land Rover Defender , the roots of your complications are more or less the same. Although there is just one wiper blade at the rear of your motor vehicle, there are still some dedicated parts that can trigger complications just on the rear windshield of your Land Rover Defender. So, make sure you accomplish similar checks as seen in the previous component of this content page.
What can I do to unlock the wiper on my Land Rover Defender?
At last, for this second section, we will see what solutions are available to you to be sure that the wipers on your Land Rover Defender are unlocked and that they function properly again.
How to unlock the wipers of my Land Rover Defender?
Whether it is for the front windshield wipers or the rear windshield wiper, the solutions will be similar and we will detail them one after the other in this component, it is up to you to adapt them to the component that concerns you. If you have other blocking complications such as a fuel door stuck on Land Rover Defender, do not hesitate to consult our article on this problem.
- In such a case, you will have to find the engine unit, then disconnect the power cables of this one (take care there must be some of them related to the different speeds of sweeping), then take out the brushes and the linkage. At last, you will have to unscrew these anchoring points which are generally fixed on silentblocks and reassemble a new wiper motor on your Land Rover Defender
- In this situation, it will be quite simple but expensive to change your commodo, the component generally costs around 200€, once tested you will be able to disassemble your commodo by removing the cover from the back of the steering wheel then disconnecting it and removing it with the fixing screws, you will just have to reassemble the new one.
- Land Rover Defender wiper blocked because of a power failure: In this last situation, you will have to find the origin of the failure (fuse or relay) and replace the defective component
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